Author's GuidelinesConsent and Release Agreement

Welcome! Coping® invites you to share knowledge, hope, and inspiration with people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Follow these Guidelines and your article, poem, or Reflection could appear on copingmag.com and/or in Coping® with Cancer magazine.

Articles about cancer prevention are generally not accepted. Most readers are already involved in
the cancer experience.

Articles advocating the use of “alternative” treatments are not accepted. Articles concerning the
use of “complementary” therapies proven effective will be considered.

Coping® strives to remain upbeat and positive. Therefore, articles about death and dying are generally not accepted.

Coping® does not publish testimonials and cannot endorse, or appear to endorse, products or services.

All articles are subject to being edited for length, grammar, content, style and tone. Substantial
deletions may be made.

Avoid putting links to external websites in the body of your article. Links may be included in a footnote at the end of your article, in your author bio, and in the Action! box (optional).

Please double-check spelling and grammar before submitting.

Digital photos must be high resolution and output at 300dpi or higher to be considered for use in Coping®
with Cancer magazine.

Complete the Share Your Story online form. After you have read and fully understand the Consent and Release Agreement and agree to its terms and conditions, check the box and click Submit. You will then be given instructions for sending your manuscript and related materials to our editor.

Please do not follow up your submission with e-mails, phone calls, faxes, or by mail. If you
do not hear from us via e-mail or telephone within a reasonable period of time, we are
unable to accept your materials for publication.

Editorial Mission: To provide knowledge, hope, and inspiration to people whose lives have been
touched by cancer.

Please familiarize yourself with the survivor stories that currently appear on
copingmag.com/cwc. Note subject matter, technique, style and format, and write
accordingly.

Maximum number of words: 700

Tell us what type of cancer you have or did have in the article or in the Editor’s Note (see below).

Include a digital photo of yourself. Set your camera for the highest possible resolution.

Avoid putting links to external websites in the body of your article. Links may be included at the
end of your article (see below).

Articles about coping with cancer should avoid lengthy treatment descriptions. Instead, focus
on what you have learned from your experience that could help others.

Be informal, upbeat, and positive.

Except where medically appropriate, substitute other words for “patient,” such as “survivor.”
A “survivor is anyone living with a history of cancer, from the moment of diagnosis through the
remainder of life,” according to the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation. Avoid “victim.”

Editor’s Note (optional): Include information about yourself at the end of the article (e.g., short bio,
contact information). Links to external websites may be included here. Include the Editor’s Note
in the maximum 700 word count.

Action! box (optional): List resources for readers to follow up on topics discussed in the article.
Links to external websites may be included here. Include the Action! box in the maximum 700
word count.

Editorial Mission: To provide knowledge, hope, and inspiration to people whose lives have been
touched by cancer.

Please familiarize yourself with the professional advice articles that currently appear on
copingmag.com/cwc. Note subject matter, technique, style and format, and write
accordingly.

Article must be objective and well documented. Coping® does not publish testimonials and cannot endorse, or appear to endorse, products or services.

Maximum number of words: 700

Include a digital photo of the author or authors. All digital images must be high resolution and output at
300dpi or higher.

Avoid putting links to external websites in the body of your article. Links may be included at the
end of the article (see below).

Explain medical information in lay terms where possible.

Use short sentences and paragraphs.

Avoid large quantities of statistical information.

Use consumer magazine-type headline and subhead to encourage readership.

Article should benefit the reader.

Except where medically appropriate, substitute other words for “patient,” such as “survivor.”
Coping® challenges readers to develop a positive, proactive attitude for a better quality of life by
becoming cancer survivors, rather than remaining patients and victims. A “survivor is anyone
living with a history of cancer, from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life,”
according to the National Cancer Survivors Day Foundation.

Editor’s Note: Include information about the author or authors at the end of the article (e.g., short
bio, contact information). Links to external websites may be included here. Include the Editor’s
Note in the maximum 700 word count.

Action! box (optional): List resources for readers to follow up on topics discussed in the article.
Links to external websites may be included here. Include the Action! box in the maximum 700
word count.

By submitting my manuscript/s and photograph/s, hereinafter referred to as the “materials,” I agree to allow Media America, Inc. (MAI), a Tennessee corporation in the United States of America, to publish the submitted materials on the website copingmag.com/cwc and in Coping® With Cancer magazine; and to publish the materials in other MAI-authorized publications, products, promotional materials and electronic mediums including the Internet.

MAI may also copy and distribute, or allow to be copied and distributed, reprints of the submitted materials as published. I understand that all materials submitted to MAI are gratuitous if published, and that publication is not guaranteed.

I attest that the submitted materials do not violate any person’s or entity’s copyright, trademark, rights of publicity, right of privacy and/or any other such right. I hereby release, discharge and agree to save harmless MAI and its employees or agents, affiliates, legal representatives or assigns and all persons acting under its authority or for whom it is acting, from any liability by virtue of any publication of my likeness or other submitted materials, including, but not limited to, claims for libel or invasion of privacy, as well as any liability arising by virtue of any distortion, alteration, or optical illusion, whether intentional or otherwise, that may occur or be produced in the making of my submitted materials.

I understand that any submitted materials are subject to editing. I acknowledge the ownership of copyright rights in any “edited” version belongs to MAI as original creations of derivative works, and if I submit my submitted material for use in any other medium, I acknowledge that I do not have the right to use the “edited” version published by MAI without its permission.

I understand that MAI will make every effort to return materials to me if requested; however, I agree that MAI is not responsible for lost, stolen, damaged or unreturned materials.

I hereby warrant that I am 18 years old or older and have every right to enter into this Agreement in my own name. I state further that I have read and fully understand this Consent and Release Agreement prior to its execution. This Agreement shall be binding upon me, my heirs, legal representative, and assigns.

If applicable, as parent or guardian of a minor, I give my consent for the publication of the submitted materials that reference or show this person.